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- 23 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 23
which employees could collaborate securely and efficiently. However, later that year, Microsoft executives unexpectedly reached out with an offer to acquire Yammer for $1.2 billion and integrate Yammer into the Microsoft Office division.... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
For too long, scholarship in the field of management has looked at economic performance rather than social welfare, argue HBS professor Joshua Margolis and colleagues James P. Walsh, of University of Michigan Business School, and Klaus... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008
Zones: Side Productions, Identity, and Regulation in an Aeronautic Plant Author:Michel Anteby Publication:Princeton University Press, 2008 Publisher's Abstract Anyone who has been employed by an organization knows not every official... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
Abstract—Himachal Pradesh outperforms other Indian states in implementing universal primary education. Through comparative field research, this article finds that bureaucratic norms—unwritten rules that guide public officials—influence... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating Online Ads We Want to Watch
Marketing Research, "Emotion-Induced Engagement in Internet Video Ads," coauthored by Teixeira and fellow researchers Michel Wedel of the University of Maryland and Rik Pieters of Tilburg University.) The researchers paid 58 adults to... View Details
- 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007
coverage through the creative use of information technology. As an initial step, ADHS initiated the development and deployment of MEDSIS. This project is causing public health in Arizona to re-evaluate their workflow and business processes as they View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Can AI Match Human Ingenuity in Creative Problem-Solving?
When ChatGPT and other large language models began entering the mainstream two years ago, it quickly became apparent the technology could excel at certain business functions, yet it was less clear how well artificial intelligence could handle more creative tasks. Sure,... View Details
- 27 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 27
explain how to generate ideas with these skills, collaborate with "delivery-driven" colleagues to implement ideas, and build innovation skills throughout your organization to sharpen its competitive edge. They also provide a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
2019 Cambridge University Press Disciples of the State?: Religion and State-Building in the Former Ottoman World By: Fabbe, Kristin Abstract—As the Ottoman Empire crumbled, the Middle East and Balkans became the site of contestation and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
Harvard Business School, where he teaches courses in supply chain management, service operations, and the investor's perspective on operations to MBA students and executive education participants. Fisher, the UPS Professor of Operations and Information Management at... View Details
- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
of purpose and is willing to seek collaboration is likely to solve problems. Q: What are you working on now? A: My colleagues and I are "bringing society in" to Harvard by continuing to develop the Harvard Advanced Leadership... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21
forthcoming Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press The Language of Global Success: How a Common Tongue Transforms Multinational Organizations By: Neeley, Tsedal Abstract—For nearly three decades, English has been the lingua franca of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 3
Eastwick, Jenna H. Frost, and Michael R. Maniaci Abstract—This article began as an adversarial collaboration between two groups of researchers with competing views on a longstanding question: Does familiarity promote or undermine... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 3, 2008
Exercise of Leadership, a New Model Authors:Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, Steve Zaffron, Kari L. Granger Abstract This paper is the (pre-course) introduction document to an experimental course developed by the authors and taught at the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
the prospects for implementation in the field. We present the decision process and competition design considerations that lead to these successful outcomes as a model for researchers who want to use competitions and non-domain crowds as View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 29, 2008
reducing social costs requires the intervention of a centralized institution. Surprisingly little work has considered what happens in between—when transaction costs exist but recourse to hierarchical institution is barred. This paper uses transaction cost analysis to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 24
Publication:In Innovation Policy and the Economy. Vol. 11, edited by Josh Lerner and Scott Stern. NBER Book Series. University of Chicago Press, forthcoming Abstract In this paper we explore the innovations in governance that have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4
Fisher collaborated across academic disciplines and wrote a series of books, mostly coauthored with junior colleagues, that are best understood as project around an evolving theme--an interest-based, problem-solving conception of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009
have assumed greater roles in defining disease categories than in the past and now influence clinical trials and participate in regulatory decision making. Yet these developments are far from universal and are taking very different forms... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3
solutions to known problems, the founding team formed an emergent goal that presented an innovative solution to a new problem and became the basis of the new company's business model. We analyze this process to explain how, under conditions of ambiguity, organizational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne